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8.6.2.3 NodeList Objects 
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A <tt class="class">NodeList</tt> represents a sequence of nodes.  These objects are
used in two ways in the DOM Core recommendation:  the
<tt class="class">Element</tt> objects provides one as its list of child nodes, and
the <tt class="method">getElementsByTagName()</tt> and
<tt class="method">getElementsByTagNameNS()</tt> methods of <tt class="class">Node</tt> return
objects with this interface to represent query results.

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The DOM Level&nbsp;2 recommendation defines one method and one attribute
for these objects:

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  Return the <var>i</var>'th item from the sequence, if there is one, or
  <code>None</code>.  The index <var>i</var> is not allowed to be less then zero
  or greater than or equal to the length of the sequence.
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  The number of nodes in the sequence.
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In addition, the Python DOM interface requires that some additional
support is provided to allow <tt class="class">NodeList</tt> objects to be used as
Python sequences.  All <tt class="class">NodeList</tt> implementations must include
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iteration over the <tt class="class">NodeList</tt> in <tt class="keyword">for</tt> statements and
proper support for the <tt class="function">len()</tt> built-in function.

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If a DOM implementation supports modification of the document, the
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